Malware Hunter Finds Spyware Used Against Dead Argentine Prosecutor

[grandpaflo]

"On January 18 of this year, Argentinian prosecutor Alberto Nisman was found dead in his apartment under mysterious circumstances. The next day, he had been scheduled to appear before the country’s Congress to deliver what was bound to be an incendiary testimony, accusing the current president, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, of trying to cover up Iran’s alleged involvement in the a bloody bombing in Buenos Aires in 1994.

"I might get out of this dead," he said the day before.

As it turns out, Nisman had good reason to be paranoid. In fact, someone had been spying on his cellphone for six weeks, using surveillance software that was capable of listening in on calls, reading messages, and capturing images of his screen, as revealed by Morgan Marquis-Boire, the director of security at First Look Media and a security researcher who has been chasing government-made hacking tools across the globe for years."

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/malware-hunter-finds-spyware-used-against-dead-argentine-prosecutor

 

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No big deal.

"On January 18 of this year, Argentinian prosecutor Alberto Nisman was found dead in his apartment under mysterious circumstances. The next day, he had been scheduled to appear before the country’s Congress to deliver what was bound to be an incendiary testimony, accusing the current president, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, of trying to cover up Iran’s alleged involvement in the a bloody bombing in Buenos Aires in 1994.

"I might get out of this dead," he said the day before.

As it turns out, Nisman had good reason to be paranoid. In fact, someone had been spying on his cellphone for six weeks, using surveillance software that was capable of listening in on calls, reading messages, and capturing images of his screen, as revealed by Morgan Marquis-Boire, the director of security at First Look Media and a security researcher who has been chasing government-made hacking tools across the globe for years."

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/malware-hunter-finds-spyware-used-against-dead-argentine-prosecutor

http://www.democracynow.org/2013/2/5/kill_list_exposed_leaked_obama_memo[/b]

 

[grandpaflo]

Inside the Spyware Campaign Against Argentine Troublemakers

Morgan Marquis-Boire | 2015-08-21T15:05:01+00:00

"Alberto Nisman, the Argentine prosecutor known for doggedly investigating a 1994 Buenos Aires bombing, was targeted by invasive spy software downloaded onto his cellular phone shortly before his mysterious death. The software masqueraded as a confidential document and was intended to infect a Windows computer.

An investigation by The Intercept indicates that this targeting was likely not an isolated event. The person or persons behind the attempted monitoring appear to have run other surveillance operations involving various locations throughout South America, at least one apparently targeting a rabble-rousing Argentine journalist. In the process, they created at least four distinct spyware bundles, all communicating with the same server set to receive Nisman’s data. They also left traces showing that their operations were active as recently as March, raising the possibility that the online spying continues today."

Extensive Story:

- https://firstlook.org/theintercept/...ntine-troublemakers-including-alberto-nisman/
- https://archive.is/Hl5nX